Madison
Railroad
"Interchange
Cars"
I'm
involved with a group of modelers throughout the nation and abroad who interchange
freight cars with one another using the "CCFS" computer program to
design waybills. Cars
are sent to member layouts at various times in a round robin affair using the
postal service. These cars are delivered to the computer selected industry
on our layouts just like the prototypes do with freight cars that travel from
one point to another.
Once
on our layouts, the cars are delivered to the industry and used on our layouts
as required. Later they are programmed to be sent
to another railroad loaded with imaginary freight destined to a particular industry.
One
requirement for membership is to take pictures of the visiting car and to send
the pictures to the owner of the car. The other requirement is to have
fun with the car while on our layouts. The computer will generate a waybill
to ship the car to the next railroad in the chain.
Below
are pictures of the "Private Road Named Cars" that visited the Madison Railroad.
All of these cars have been
sent to other railroads since these pictures were taken and are no longer on
the Madison Railroad.
Click
on the image to see a larger picture.
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This
car comes from The Netherlands.
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Owned
by the "Westport Terminal RR" of Germany.
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A
"Hobbiton & Middle Earth RR" of Netherlands.
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This
tank car is owned by the "Inland Dispatch RR" of Floral
Park, NY.
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Owned
by the "Ridgewood & McLean RR" of Ridgewood, NJ.
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This
tanker is owned by the "Las Vegas & Pahrump RR, of Martinsville,
IN.
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Another
"LV&P RR" freight car.
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An
"Inland Dispatch RR" is located in Floral Park, NY.
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This
blue car is owned by the "CE&W RR" now located in
Peoria, AZ.
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The
location of this "Great Lakes & Eastern" boxcar is
unknown.
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The
GATSME Lines club of Fort Washington, PA.
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A
"Ridgewood & McLean RR" car is being pulled from a
siding.
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This
"Inland Dispatch RR" flat car and load visited.
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Here
a "Charleston Eagle Ridge & Wheeling RR" tanker is spotted on a siding.
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From
the "Anaconda Northern RR" of Chesterfield, VA.
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This
car comes from the "Westport Terminal RR" in Germany.
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This
car is owned by the "Hobbiton & Middle Earth RR" in
the Netherlands.
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This
Biffy car comes from the "Woods Hole Northern RR" in the
Netherlands.
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This
40 foot boxcar comes from the "Woods Hole Northern RR"
in the Netherlands.
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This
coil car comes from the "Charleston, Eagle Ridge &
Wheeling RR" of Peoria, Arizona
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This
Gondola comes from the "Inland Dispatch RR" located in
Floral Park, NY
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More
pictures will be added when they are scanned.
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